Combined paper-weight and pencil-sharpener.



S. M. STEVENS.

COMBINED PAPER WElGHT AND PENCIL SHARPENER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 9. l9l5.

Lfifl'yfilfio Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

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IIVVEIVTOR Samuel M. Stevens Arm/guys m: mmms PETERS cm, nuomuma. WASHINGTON. n. c.

SAMUEL MERRETT STEVENS, OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

COMBINED PAPER-WEIGHT AND PENCIL-SHARPENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1216.

Application filed January 9, 1915. Serial No. 1,330.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. STEvnNs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Asheville, in the county of Buncombe and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Combined Paper-Weight and Pencil Sharpener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a paper weight having a novel handle equipped with pencil sharpener elements, so that the handle serves a two-fold function.

The invention is particularly adapted for use as an advertising device, in which the paper weight presents panels available for advertising matter. In carrying out the invention also the top of the paper weight is made to constitute a receptacle for the parings produced by the pencil sharpener.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a paper weight embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.

In constructing a practical embodiment of my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the body 10 of the paper weight is made preferably oblong and of solid formation sufficient to serve the purpose of a paper weight, the opposite sides and ends of the paper weight presenting plain panels on which the advertising matter (not shown) may be displayed.

The paper weight is equipped with a ham dle 11 which is disposed longitudinally and supported above the body 10 of the paper weight by standards 12 integral with the body. The handle 11 is tubular and preferably of metal, and it may be supported by molding the opposite ends of the standards 12 in depressions 13 in the opposite faces of said standards. The standards 12 have counterbores 14 extending therethrough in alinement with each other and in alinement with the bore of the tubular handle 11, so that a pencil A to be sharpened may be inserted into the handle from either end. Fitted in the ends of the tubular handle and in the counter-bores 14 are the tubu lar bodies 15 of pencil Sharpeners, there being one pencil sharpener at each end of the handle 11. The pencil sharpeners may be of approved form; they are shown as having lateral wings 15 and blades 17 arranged at lateral slots 16. The tubular pencil sharpeners 15 extend beyond the ends of the handle into the counter-bores 1 1 and thereby constitute a strengthening element in the connection between the handle 11 and the standards 12, which is an important feature in the case of glass standards.

In operation a pencil A is entered longitudinally in a pencil sharpener 15, and upon being turned and advanced in a well known manner, the chips will escape laterally through the slots 16. The top of the body 10 of the paper weight is depressed at 10 and is broader than the handle 11, so that the chips will be received in the said de' pressed top.

To give completeness to the paper weight as a useful desk device, I provide in practice rack elements 18 consisting of lateral arms projecting at the front and back from the standards 12. The outer ends of the arms 18 are up-turned so that two arms at the front or back will. form a rack for the pencil, as indicated at B (Fig. 1).

In order to provide for the fitting of the pencil sharpener in the tubular handle, the latter is formed with an elongated opening 11 at the underside through which the pencil sharpener may be entered to be then moved. endwise toward the ends of the tubular handle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An article of the character described comprising a body, standards on the body at the top and formed with lateral depressions in their inner faces and with counterbores extending through the standards, a tubular handle extending at its ends into said depressions above the body, the counter-bores of the standards alining with the interior of the handle, and pencil sharpeners fitted in the tubular handle at the ends and projecting beyond the same into the said counter-bores, the tubular bodies of the sharpeners being open at the outer ends for the entrance of a pencil thereinto through the said counter-bores of the standards.

2. An article of the character described, comprising a body, a tubular handle supported on the body above the top thereof sol flopies et this patent-L me? he obtained for and \vith the under ide.ettend ng leteml ynin o t e handle to thehollbw interior thereof, said opening terminatingWa-t;ibS-QQtB1nd shgrt of the adjacentstandafd; and at pencil Sharpener haying tubular body 1511' o in in the tubular handle and having a cutter projecting through said opening, the outer end of said tubular body of the sharpener extending beyond the said "lateral opening; and being 'mqfi zpble endwise iid ne te this specification in the ing its said extending end to the open- Wm f9;- w '.em. v i g the s m n ne and the Outer end of thetubular' body being open 1 for-the entit nc -ofe penc I In testimony wheie'of'I have signed my Pres n e of t'n o stibsribing Witnesses.

"SAMUELMERRETT STEVENS. Witnesses M. M. LEONARD, GAY MGGALL.

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